Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (movie)

Tim Heidecker is the first to admit that he developed his love of the macabre while he was growing up in the Allentown area. As a kid, he used to tune into "Twilight Zone" marathons at his home in Salisbury Township and make a beeline to any movie directed by David Lynch and the Coen Brothers.

Beyond that, there was the Lehigh Valley itself which, he says, always managed to put him in a somewhat spooky frame of mind.

"Without being too mean to Allentown, it had a certain small-town desperation about it," Heidecker says. "You could see the ghosts of a better time everywhere around you. You could see a lot of decay, the same decay you can see all over...

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